NZQA registered unit standard
17856 version 3
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Title
Demonstrate knowledge of pulp and paper products
Level
3
Credits
4
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to demonstrate
knowledge of pulp products, paper grades, and cartonboard
produced in the New Zealand paper making industry.
Classification
Wood Fibre Manufacturing > Pulp and Paper Technology
Available grade
Achieved
Explanatory notes
All evidence requirements must be demonstrated and assessed in accordance with the
reference text: Demonstrate knowledge of pulp and paper products, published by
Competenz and available from Competenz at http://www.competenz.org.nz/, or
Competenz, PO Box 9005, Newmarket, Auckland 1149.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Demonstrate knowledge of pulp products.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Pulp products are identified and their manufacture is described.
Range
1.2
Defining characteristics of pulp products are described.
Range
1.3
groundwood, refiner mechanical, semi-chemical, kraft.
groundwood, refiner mechanical, and semi-chemical pulp
characteristics – freeness, shive level, brightness;
kraft pulp characteristics – brightness, kappa number, shive levels.
Pulp products are matched with paper products and reasons for the match are
explained in terms of paper product performance.
Range
groundwood, refiner mechanical, semi-chemical, kraft.
Outcome 2
Demonstrate knowledge of paper grades and cartonboard produced in the New Zealand
paper making industry.
Competenz
SSB Code 101571
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016
NZQA registered unit standard
17856 version 3
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Evidence requirements
2.1
Paper grades are identified and differences in their manufacture are described.
Range
2.2
newsprint, packaging, linerboard, tissue, corrugating medium,
cartonboard.
Paper properties are described and matched with paper products and the match
is explained to highlight the importance of the properties to the paper product
performance.
paper properties – opacity, ink absorption rate, wet strength,
formation, tear, tensile, stretch, softness, water absorbency, curl,
printability, plybond, edge crush;
paper products – newsprint, packaging, linerboard, tissue,
cartonboard, corrugating medium.
Range
Planned review date
31 December 2019
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
30 November 2000
N/A
Review
2
18 December 2006
N/A
Review
3
24 October 2014
N/A
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0173
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA,
before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses
of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and
which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that
applies to those standards.
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies
to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR). The
CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing
to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors
and assessors, and special resource requirements.
Competenz
SSB Code 101571
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016
NZQA registered unit standard
17856 version 3
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Comments on this unit standard
Please contact Competenz qualifications@competenz.org.nz if you wish to suggest
changes to the content of this unit standard.
Competenz
SSB Code 101571
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016